My childhood bully died of an overdose, and I have to pretend I am not happy about it

That's crazy!!! When I read your title, THE EXACT SAME THING HAPPENED LAST MONTH TO A GUY I KNEW. He was a bully, I went to a school district that wasn't very big. It was small enough for a lot of people to know who was who. Anyways, there was one dude that everyone knew about. He was one of the biggest ( very tall and kind of chunky but BIG, like body guard type) and he was THE biggest asshole of the school. He wasn't like a jock but he would hang out with the most dirt bag, dirty, shady people just like him.

Not very bright, does drugs, drinks alcohol, fought a lot, was a cheater, bullied A LOT of people, committed animal abuse, and would terrorize just about anyone that wasn't in his dirt bag friend group. He even fought some people that were his "homies." Over the years, he started to do more and more drugs. I knew he was spiraling downward because I was close enough to him just for a couple of months because he took an interest to me. But I was just a naive teenage girl and he tried to use me and introduce me into that lifestyle and drag me down with him. But I never got into any of that stuff. He was a very sadistic person.

I fell off and barely spoke to him after high school except on a few rare occasions. He went to a state prison. I kept hearing stories about how he was getting thinner and was asking for change outside of the gas station from my sibling. And people were starting to say he became a drug fiend.

Then, literally, last month, his brother had informed us that he died. Apparently, he overdosed but I am not sure if he died from an overdose or if someone gave him fentanyl. He was beaten up (apparently AFTER he died) and everything in his wallet was taken like his money. They had found him in an alley. He died just a couple of months before his 30th birthday.

I'm sorry but that was just karma. I've seen so much of what he had done to other people and even animals. This was a person that would go out of his way (with his dirt bag friends) to mock, terrorize, embarrass, hurt and cause damage to mostly innocent people. If he wasn't doing that, he would drag you down with him in his misery. I say good riddance too. We were close for just a minute but then I realized, the more I got to know him, the more I hated him. He was just a sadistic person. I'm sure if a lot of his former bullied victims knew, they wouldn't feel bad at all. I don't blame them. Fuck bullies and sadists. We don't have ANY obligation to pity them or to feel sympathy or empathy for them. They rightfully get what theirs in the end.

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